Sentences with phrase «almost by obligation»

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The Obama Administration's Wall Street managers have kept the debt overhead in place — toxic mortgage debt, junk bonds, and most seriously, the novel web of collateralized debt obligations (CDO), credit default swaps (almost monopolized by A.I.G.) and kindred financial derivatives of a basically mathematical character that have developed in the 1990s and early 2000s.

In any event, this being a hypothetical ballot, I feel no obligation to abide by the academy's list of official submissions or its long - standing one - film - per - country rule, which is almost as outmoded as the electoral college.

Ross says that Ohio has «almost a moral obligation» to ensure that students are proficient in reading, instead of taking the easy way out by promoting them even if they aren't reading at grade level.

There is no way for the author to terminate the contract, other than through a breach of contract by D Publishing — unlikely since the contract places almost no obligations on D Publishing.

That's the problem with signing reaffirmation agreements: there's a possibility that by doing so, clients will be creating extremely expensive obligations for something that almost every adult needs: a functional car.

They continued to develop a growing sense that they had an opportunity — almost an obligation — to honor this experience by sharing these fascinating stories and these exquisite coffees.

For instance the following illustration prepared by EcoEquity and the Stockholm Environment Institute shows that the US fair share of global emissions, making what the authors of the report claim are moderate assumptions of what equity requires, demonstrates that equity not only requires the US to reduce its emissions to zero quickly almost immediately but that US obligations to prevent a 2 degree C rise requires the US to substantially fund ghg emissions reductions in other countries by 2025 despite achieving zero emissions by 2020.

HMRC's failure to use a more secure method to transport the information (it was not even sent by means of registered delivery); its failure to ensure that the information was encrypted (the CDs were only password protected); and its failure to ensure that there were controls in place to prevent a relatively junior official from accessing and copying the entire database seem almost inevitably to point to a complete abnegation by HMRC of its obligations under the seventh data protection principle.

I wonder, if they ultimately succeed in their campaign to blackball TWU and are overturned by the courts (as happened to the BC college of teachers dealing with the self - same issue, and will almost certainly happen in Ontario), will Mr. Mulligan and his ilk report themselves for failing to live up to THEIR obligations as lawyers in the province of British Columbia to protect the rights and freedoms of TWU graduates.